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I am looking for IBM to enhance the granularity of delivery options for MQ generated Event messages. While newer Event Message types such as Configuration Events get their own queue (SYSTEM.ADMIN.CONFIG.EVENT), legacy events share common queues. Authority, Inhibit and Start Stop Events all use the SYSTEM.ADMIN.QMGR.EVENT queue and there is no option to tune this. See the Use Case below on why one would want this capability.
One potential solution would be to create an Event queue for each Event type. To be backward compatible the new Event specifc queues for legacy Event types could be defined as Alias queues resolving to the classic local queues. Potentially new Alias Queue SYSTEM.ADMIN.AUTH.EVENT could resolve to local queue SYSTEM.ADMIN.QMGR.EVENT. The change would be transparent to existing users, but would give me the ability to change the Alias Queue SYSTEM.ADMIN.AUTH.EVENT however I see fit, to allow me to send Authority Events and only Authority Events where I want.
Another solution would be to convert Eventing in MQ to a pure Pub Sub implementation. With a strong topic tree structure covering all Event types a user could subscribe to very specific Event types or all Event types. And multiple users could have overlapping subscriptions, each one to the queue of their choice. Events lend themselves to a Pub Sub model where multiple users, a single user or no users might be interested in a particular event.
Idea priority | Medium |
RFE ID | 39722 |
RFE URL | |
RFE Product | IBM MQ |
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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Integration
Product - IBM MQ
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Connectivity and Integration
Product - IBM MQ
In particular, *all* event messages should be published. For backward compatibility, the existing queue names continue to be defined and durable subscriptions created to point to them. However, as a security feature, the ability to subscribe to event messages such that they cannot be intercepted by an attacker is extremely useful.
I agree with Neil. PubSub to a more granular topic tree structure.
We are considering implementing something that would address this requirement in a future version of MQ.
In my opinion, Pub/Sub is the way to go for implementation of this RFE. While it is possible to use QAlias with targtype(topic) to convert the current structure of queues to topics publications, the granularity doesn't change. Also, doing pub/sub this way breaks backward compatibility as applications cannot get the messages from the original SYSTEM.ADMIN.*.EVENT queue names.
So, improved separation of different event types into a well defined topic tree would have many advantages to MQ monitoring and event management.